Category Archives: Blogosphere

Runaway Toyota owner’s possible motive

Posted on March 15, 2010 | Comments Off on Runaway Toyota owner’s possible motive

Internet scoops legacy media again: Balloon boy seems to have come down to earth, and was well behind in the payments for the Prius he was driving.

Via No Left Turns.

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IEATAPETA

Posted on March 15, 2010 | Comments Off on IEATAPETA

It’s the Eighth Annual International Eat A Tasty Animal for PETA Day. Hamburger, I expect, will be on the menu at the rancho where we seldom miss an opportunity to mock a pretentious person or organization. Especially an obnoxious one like PETA, which so richly deserves all the ridicule it gets.

Not that we have anything against vegetarians. Just tell us how you’d like them prepared. Heh.

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Winter to linger, flood chances increase

Posted on March 7, 2010 | Comments Off on Winter to linger, flood chances increase

Rainfall has been above normal across Central Texas since Jan. 1, according to the National Weather Service. That’s expected to continue, with a consequent risk of significant flooding, especially on area rivers and lakes.

Forecast rain & storms today through Monday will only add to the problem.

Meanwhile, LCRA meteorologist Bob Rose says one of the coldest winters in the past hundred years isn’t quite ready to relinquish its grip. This month and next are expected to be cooler than normal: “Springtime temperatures aren’t here yet, and it looks like it will still be a while before we see a consistent stretch of warm…”

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The bureaucracy never sleeps

Posted on March 7, 2010 | Comments Off on The bureaucracy never sleeps

They’re always dreaming up new things to regulate, to keep their jobs and pensions. Up next: the Internet. You knew all this freedom couldn’t last, right?

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LBJ: stranger than fiction

Posted on March 6, 2010 | Comments Off on LBJ: stranger than fiction

Seems old Lyndon Baines broke some laws for other than personal gain and one fellow is out to see him declared righteous for it, at least in Israel. LBJ, we hardly knew ye. Nor did your granddaughter, but she’s on the right path.

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The Doc In The Box

Posted on March 4, 2010 | Comments Off on The Doc In The Box

I’m glad to see these retail-ish medical clinics, which are very popular in Austin, are proliferating. But I’m surprised to see there’s only 1,200 plus across the country.

They are pretty cheap and they really do give the lie to the supposed need for Obamacare. Even the illegal hoards the Dems want to insure (so their numbers keep growing and they keep voting Dem) can afford a doc in the box.

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Government inefficiency is reassuring

Posted on March 1, 2010 | Comments Off on Government inefficiency is reassuring

I’ve said this before about other things, but it’s worth saying again in a new context. I find this news of the Secret Service operating with outdated and frequently malfunctioning, circa 1980s computer equipment, quite reassuring, actually.

As an old friend, a former government spook, likes to say, while hooting at the latest conspiracy theory of the paranoid: no agency of the federal government could find its ass with both hands. And thereby, my friends, our freedom is preserved. Imagine if they were actually efficient…

Via Dustbury.

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